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1950s compared to nowadays
Posted by Colin in Oz on 6/4/2025, 11:21 am
SCHOOLS - 1950s v 2019
Scenario : Johnny and Mark get into a fight after school.
1950s - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends.
2019 - Police called, and they arrest Johnny and Mark & charge them with assault. Both expelled even though Johnny started it. Both children go to anger management programmes for 3 months. School governors hold meeting to implement bullying prevention programmes.
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Scenario : Robbie won't be still in class, disrupts other students.
1950s - Robbie sent to headmaster and given six of the best. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2019 - Robbie given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADHD – result deemed to be positive. Robbie's parents get fortnightly disability payments and school gets extra funding from government because Robbie has a disability.
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Scenario : Billy breaks a window in a neighbour's car and his Dad gives him a good hiding
1950s - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2019 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care; joins a gang; ends up in jail.
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Scenario : Mark gets a headache and takes some Aspirin to school.
1950s - Mark gets glass of water from Principal to take aspirin with, Passes exams & becomes a solicitor.
2019 - Police called, car searched for drugs and weapons. Mark expelled from school for drug taking. Ends up as a drop out.
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Scenario : Johnny takes apart leftover fireworks from Guy Fawkes night, puts them in a paint tin & blows up a wasp's nest.
1950s - Wasps die.
2019 - Police & Anti-Terrorism Squad called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, investigate parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated. Johnny's Dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly in an aeroplane again.
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Scenario : Johnny falls over while playing football during morning break and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. She hugs him to comfort him.
1950s - In a couple of minutes, Johnny feels better and goes on playing football. No damage done.
2019 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy and ends up gay.
------------------------- This should be sent to every e-mail address you know to remind us how stupid we have become!
Very depressing, but unfortunately it’s true. In today’s newspaper. A transgender paedophile is brought into hospital for treatment in chains. The nurses calls him Mr. He screamed at her and says the N word. He complains and after a three minute meeting with her manager, she is suspended. Since telling her story to a newspaper, she has now lost her Job.
There was always a pecking order in the boys school I went to, usually decided by the winner of a school yard scuffle,followed by a trip to the headmasters for punishment more often than not a few strokes of the cane.That was the end of it.
Neither did we have to have school councellors advise kids on the so called dramas 'helping us get through' because as kids we understood the situation and knew how to handle it.
